Self Loving Compassion – Gratitude ❤✨ Derek Walcott – RIP

A note of thanks and gratitude for the work of Derek Walcott and its influence on my life. He passed away today at the age of 87. See his obit here.

here’s one of my favorite poems…. Feast on your Life.

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again, you will love again, the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.